Road Trips: Volume 1 - Number 2
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Albuquerque, NM - 10/7/77
Norman, OK - 10/11/77
Houston, TX - 10/14/77
Baton Rouge, LA - 10/16/77
Ah yes, the glorious year of 1977, a favorite of discerning Dead Heads for three decades now! For the second volume in our new Road Trips series, we’ve chosen another tour that was not tapped previously through Dick’s Picks—a blazing swing through the Southwest, Colorado and down to Louisiana during the first weeks of October 1977.
This was a great time for the band: Both the years-in-the-making Grateful Dead Movie and the new Terrapin Station album had come out a few months earlier and the group was riding high on momentum from both of those projects. There was exciting new material that had debuted at the beginning of the year, including “Estimated Prophet,” “Terrapin” and “Fire on the Mountain,” and steady touring through the spring allowed the band to really explore the nuances of the new repertoire, while they also continued to hone the material that had come in following the band’s return to the stage in mid-1976 after their hiatus. What you’ll find on these great-sounding discs is a mixture of old favorites played with that fabled ’77 energy, and more recent material that was hitting new peaks nightly. There’s a “Let It Grow” that will knock your tie-dyed socks off, one of the great versions of “Sugaree” of that or any year, the famous “Help on the Way > Slipknot! > Franklin’s Tower” from Norman, Oklahoma, epic workouts on “Playing in the Band” and “The Other One” and a jammed-out “Black Peter” for the ages. Hot stuff!
Once again, the discs have been lovingly compiled and painstakingly mastered (in HDCD) from the original master tapes (in this case reels) by Jeffrey Norman. The booklet that accompanies the CDs boasts scads of great photos from the era and a very cool historical essay by the ever-hip and erudite scribe Steve Silberman.
TRACK LIST
DISC 1:
1. Let It Grow (10:17) (10/11/77)
2. Sugaree (17:41) (10/16/77)
3. The Music Never Stopped (8:59) (10/16/77)
4. Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleoo (11:53) (10/14/77)
5. El Paso (4:52) (10/14/77)
6. Help On the Way (5:48) (10/11/77)
7. Slipknot! (4:02) (10/11/77)
8. Franklin's Tower (14:59) (10/11/77)
DISC 2:
1. Playing In the Band (17:12) (10/14/77)
2. Drums (3:09) (10/16/77)
3. The Other One (8:24) (10/16/77)
4. Good Lovin' (5:53) (10/16/77)
5. Terrapin Station (11;29) (10/16/77)
6. Black Peter (13:17) (10/16/77)
7. Around and Around (9:08) (10/16/77)
8. Brokedown Palace (5:51) (10/14/77)
9. Playing In the Band reprise (5:23) (10/14/77)
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After being forced to listen
After being forced to listen to this CD set for the last two months, I am absolutely OUTRAGED that Rhino has taken over my sound system with one of the best "Sugarees" I've ever heard and a thundering "Let It Grow" with a hair-raising chord sequence that takes the jam in a whole new direction. Plus, the sound on these discs is so crisp and huge, it's as if the suits at Rhino are trying to make fun of the hissy cassettes I painstakingly collected in the '80s. Besides, who are they to insist on putting out compilations, which I have declared sacrilegious, though Dick Latvala himself loved making mixed tapes of favorite jams for his friends (complete with goofy dedications like "Pretty good taste in music for a white boy")? This has got to STOP, or I'll be forced to download another show.
Steve Silberman
Compilations vs. Complete Shows
All right.
After all, "Ladies & Gentlemen..." or "Steppin' Out..." were compilations as well, and they were rather good releases (even if 5/26/1972, for instance, should have been released in its entirety).
Considering october '77, the Norman or the Baton Rouge shows are really great shows, some of the very best from this great tour, and the highlights should be not just "Sugaree" or "Slipknot!", but, as it is said in the Deadhead's Taping Compendium, every single note !!!
The "Sugaree" from Baton Rouge is one of the best ever, and ok, i'm sure the remastering in this compilation is very good, but I'll always miss the "Promised Land" that opened the show, and the "Cassidy" and the "Deal" that followed...
Listen to "Truckin" and "Morning Dew" on Europe '72, then listen to the entire 2nd set from 5/26/1972, where they come from, and you'll see the difference.
1977
1977 has always been my favorite year; of course I believe the spring of '77 cannot be matched, but hey, this will add to the collection some great sounding highlights from latter swing of that year (stuff which I never had before, so it is GOOD!).
Great Job!
My one and only (and continuing complaint), is that it is not being offered by download. Some of those poor people overseas have just finally gotten their first Road Trips, and now they'll have to wait another 2+ months to get this one. I live in the US, and it took me 40 days to get my copy. So please! DOWNLOADS...
Greg SC
Downloads
Aye, indeed, as a Brit deadhead I won't be buying any more from Rhino until they reinstate downloads; the pantomime over Road Trips and the appalling and unpleasant Customer Service has ensure that. And bollocks, I have over 1000 shows on my HDs, all the previous pre-Rhino releases, some 400 Ratdog shows, similar JGB. They'll have to do a whole load better than this to get me back.
Lovely version of the Sugaree playing here at the moment, plus ALL the rest of the show. Who needs Best Ofs .... Jeez.
Actually
There's just one thing ... that might tempt me, and that would be if they started issuing whole shows IN 24 BIT. 24 bit is the future, and it seems odd we have SO little from the Dead
Physical records? Yes please ...
I'm one those guys over in Europe who had to wait until January to get my copy of the first volume in the new series of records ... but still, as a long time record collector I do prefer physical records to anomynous downloads ...
Of course complete shows are always better than compilations ... but on the other hand I bet one can listen to the complete shows of October 1977 at Internet Archives, so for those who don't give a damn about physical records, there's always that possibility.
There are many places on the Internet where you and I can listen to complete shows, so stop whining ... at least about that.
Perhaps I'm a sucker but I will get this volume as well ... but I do hope I do not have to wait two months for it ...
Micke,
Växjö, Sweden
Oh and, Winterland '73
For those who ordered it way back to be told, "whoops, you weren't meant to do that" (Only following orders, Captain), Spin records in the UK, who now will have my custom for new releases from now on (excluding these damp Road Trip samplers), are advertising the Winterland '73 set for May.
http://www.spincds.com/
Right hand column (pre-releases), near the bottom.
Road Trips
I'm listening the RTrips 2 right now streaming. Nice sound and selections. However there's a difference in what Heads want and need. Our ears, minds and bodies will always want to hear Dead. Our souls will always NEED to relive an experience known as a Grateful Dead Show. "There's Nothing like a Grateful Dead SHOW!" No one ever said there's nothing like a Grateful Dead Song. Gestalt - "The whole is always greater than the sum of the parts." Like discussing a roller coaster ride with a fellow rider. Neither can determine if it was the climb up to the first drop or the wicked turns, or the loops or the abrupt ending which jerks you forward. No it's all of those things together which makes THE RIDE. Maybe someday rhino, like many of our close dear friends over the years who when it comes to GD just don't get it - will get it, someday I hope. Give us the whole damn show. PA - LEASE. Please.
bobosa
nugs.net
I realize it doesn't have a lot of complete shows, but I've downloaded 8-27-72 Field Trip, 5-4-72 Paris, and some other things from http://nugs.net/
Once you're on the home page, click on Free Stash>Download>Grateful Dead, and there you will find some complete shows which are absolutely free, including the spring '77 stuff: Enjoy! William-O
I believe criticisms of Rhino are misplaced
Just FYI, the Rhino logo and name appeared nowhere on Road Trips 1/1 packaging or CDs, nor are these discs being marketed through their website. So I'm pretty sure the Road Trips series is the brainchild of band members and/or vault archivists.
IMO, this is a reasonable addition to the commercial releases. There are already 36 DPs and several other releases--some of which contain complete shows. One nice thing about the Road Trips series is that all discs are jam-packed with almost 80 minutes of music.